1959 in science fiction

The year 1959 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events.

Births

 * Steve Alten
 * Ayerdhal (d. 2015)
 * Maurice Georges Dantec (d. 2016)
 * Stephen Dedman
 * Steven Erikson
 * Andreas Eschbach
 * Boban Knežević
 * Maureen F. McHugh
 * Lawrence M. Schoen
 * Martha Soukup
 * Neal Stephenson

Deaths

 * Edwin Balmer (b. 1883)
 * Otfrid von Hanstein (b. 1869)

Novels

 * Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
 * The Beast Master by Andre Norton
 * A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
 * The Canopy of Time by Brian Aldiss
 * Dodkin's Job by Jack Vance
 * Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson
 * The Duplicated Man by James Blish and Robert Lowndes.
 * Echo in the Skull by John Brunner
 * The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson
 * Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton
 * Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
 * Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
 * Next of Kin by Eric Frank Russell
 * Ossian's Ride by Fred Hoyle
 * The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
 * The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
 * Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
 * The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova
 * Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
 * Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
 * The War Against the Rull by A. E. van Vogt
 * Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
 * The World Swappers by John Brunner

Awards

 * A Case of Conscience by James Blish won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.